accost

Speech parts

1. accost - Noun

2. accost - Verb

Meaning

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

To approach; to make up to.

To speak to first; to address; to greet.

To adjoin; to lie alongside.

Address; greeting.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

address hook solicit salaam approach call face meet stop challenge addressed encounter proposition halt welcome
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Antonyms

dodge back shun avoid agree depart
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Hypernyms

come offer come up

Hyponyms

approach recognize greet recognise

Derivatives

accosted accosting

Examples

he was solicited by a prostitute Source: Internet

The young man was caught soliciting in the park Source: Internet

For all the reportage chronicling his business missteps and accusations of sexual harassment and worse, little stuck until the public heard him utter those course words bragging of his carte blanche to accost women. Source: Internet

For far too long they had been too scared to accost or even speak out against the high handedness and atrocities committed by the army officials and the political agent posted in their areas by the federal government," he said. Source: Internet

How can they accost you if you can run away? Source: Internet

I remembered the next day when she started to accost me verbally for forgetting. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

accordment accorgan accorporate accostable accosted accoster